The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Ghost Map

The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

By
Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson
2006 • 332 pages

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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans
The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes

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Science

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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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Medicine

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The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Botany of Desire
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis